But really, her best moments tonight came when she purposefully stayed quiet, smiled, and allowed Donald Trump all the time he needed to unleash his patented concoction of outright falsehoods, bigoted vitriol, and nonsensical insults on the American people. Incredibly, it was Hillary Clinton's smiling that some definitely-not-mad-online Republicans found to be the most offensive part of this entire debacle.

Like many women, Hillary Clinton has spent much of her professional career being unfairly criticized for not smiling. It's a condescending, sexist exhortation that immediately reveals the insecurity of men dumb enough to offer it. Now, on the biggest stage of her life, as she listens in semi-disbelief to the one man who stands between her and the White House sputter incoherent nonsense to a national TV audience, her critics have decided that, no, now the problem is that she's smiling too much.

These are bad takes from angry men who are grappling, in real time, with the fact that their party nominated an overcooked ham steak to be their presidential candidate. While they rearrange the Titanic's deck chairs 140 characters at a time, Hillary Clinton can and should smile as much as she damn well pleases.

Ralphie

Ralphie has no memory of a phlegmatic moment from childhood but grew up to be described as composed, 'calm, cool, and collected', controlled, serene, tranquil, placid, impassive, imperturbable, unruffled... loves reading, writing, traveling, making friends and sharing thoughts. When he's not working on projects and executing startups, he is researching and writing.